SearchMash: Google Reborn

“It’s quite a challenge really: how does the Number 1 search engine on the web rewrite its search algorithm and test its effectiveness without hurting its current results and user-experience during the testing process? Sergey Brin and Larry Page seem to have figured it out: create a new search engine, and do your testing there! SearchMash.com is the evolution of Google, and should things go right, what Google will (soon enough) become. It tests a range of new features and methods of bringing information to the users’ fingertips in more ways than immediately obvious to the eyes.”

A fall-back modus without javascript would be good. So that I’m still able to search in my text bases terminal for “how to fix x11”. This IS possible while keeping the AJAX functionality for those who can use it.

The real news in this for me is that from time to time I can have repeatedly fun reading how users rediscover searchmash again and again and report it as novelty over again. Thing is, it probably hasn’t changed much recently since these reports seem to be kind of the same for a time now.

I prefer being able to see dimensions and filesizes in the image search results. Sometimes the Google image search delivers a page that shows image details only on mouseovers, and I don’t quite like that, either. Better than not showing it at all, though…

I like Snap, thanks for the tip. Much better than the others. I’ve been loosing faith in google of late, too commercial now, just wants to promote its paying corporate customers by the looks of things. This is just my impression mind you, it may be different for others?